"I'll be exploring Hiroshi Yoshimura's catalog of music this Tuesday at 7pm pacific on @particlefm. 🍃

Recently @temporal_drift announced that they'll be repressing his album Surround, originally made for pre-fab housing developer Misawa to give away to customers who bought their homes. 🏡 I thought it would be fun to go through some of his music ahead of the release on my radio show.

Known as an early pioneer of environmental music, many of Yoshimura's albums were designed to be played inside urbanized spaces like museums and fashion runways. His music was meant to enhance the spaces surrounding the listener.

Yoshimura's approach to ambient music is tranquil and minimal, bringing bliss to listeners who are more often than not disconnected from nature in an increasingly urban setting. 🌿🌳🐝" - @atrevid000

Planet V w/ Atrevido (Hiroshi Yoshimura Special) - Sep 13th 2023

"The Implicate Order of the Sea" is analog and modular generative piece of music, with no structure of its own, that even resonates with my dreams of reading David Bohm.

David Joseph Bohm was a scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind.

Ocean sounds from Douarnenez, Finistère.

Original Album "A Path of Light", released August 1, 2022.

Composed, performed and arranged by the Art of the Sun.

Remastered in 2023 on Tape Reel Akai GX 270-D.

Thanks for listening!

A Path of Light

The Implicate Order Of The Sea


I composed this song inspired by the music of Hiroshi Yoshimura

Como Hiroshi

Lotus is track 1 from the ambient synth drone album 'Digital Leaves' by Excellent Birds. Out end of July 2025 on Crystal Fuzz Records. 

Excellent Birds is the electronic project of songwriter and producer Annie Gardiner. Check out Crystal Fuzz Records bandcamp for full releases, and www.anniegardiner.co.uk for more info

https://crystalfuzzrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.anniegardiner.co.uk/
@gards_annie 

Lotus

Tetrapanax is the second track on Ambient record 'Digital Leaves' by Excellent Birds. Out on Crystal Fuzz Records at the end of July 2025. 

Excellent Birds is the electronic project of songwriter and producer Annie Gardiner. Check out Crystal Fuzz Records bandcamp for full releases, and www.anniegardiner.co.uk for more info

https://crystalfuzzrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.anniegardiner.co.uk/
@gards_annie 

Giant Butterbur

This track is inspired by Hiroshi Yoshimura. I thought it would be fitting to make this photo I took tonight the cover.

Hassan

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dream" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dance PM" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Water Copy" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

01. Recoil - Shunt (Panasonic Mix) [Mute - 1997]
02. D.I.D. - Recycles [Big Sleep Records - 1995]
03. 7 - Six [Aural X-Perience / Suck Me Plasma Ambience - 1995]
04. Astral Engineering - 2010 [Worm Interface - 1994]
05. Richard H. Kirk - Velodrome [Warp Records - 1994]
06. As One - Isatai [Applied Rhythmic Technology (ART) - 1992]
07. In-Existence - A Mood [Apollo - 1993]
08. A Positive Life - Warehouse 5 A.M. [Waveform Records - 1995]
09. Model 500 - Milky Way [R&S Records - 1995]
10. Klaus Schultze - Voices In The Dark (Lite Mix) [Eye Of The Storm - 1996]
11. David Morley - Calibration [Apollo - 1993]
12. Golden Girls - Kinetic (Morley's Apollo Mix) [R&S Records - 1992]
13. The Higher Intelligence Agency - Speed Learn [Beyond - 1993]
14. Iberian - Boiling Eggs [F Communications - 1994]
15. Krilly - Frozenfood [MFS - 1998]
16. Omicron - Static State (High On Transistors) [Instinct Ambient - 1995]
17. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek [AIR Records Inc. - 1986]
18. Harmon Eyes - Iodine Sky (Rmx) [Loop Records - 1996]

Hjärngymnastik 007: Synapsvesikelkulstötning

Particle FM is an intersection of different cultures, identities, and music styles. We are a DIY internet radio station building a platform for women, LBGTQ, black, latino, asian, indigenous, immigrant, and underrepresented artists to showcase their work and share their wildest tastes in music.

Grew up in Crown Heights. Lived in Los Angeles, Georgia, Louisiana, and Trinidad. Creating experimental music and the occasional remix.

9/23/19: Inoyama Land "Commissions 1977-2000" 2LP/CD/Digi: https://lita.fanlink.to/InoyamaLand
10/11/19: Masahiro Sugaya "Horizon, Vol. 1" LP/CD/Digi: https://lita.fanlink.to/Sugaya

Independent composer and musician, based in France.

20/6 - Midsummer Open Air
30/5 - groundBreaking w/ Kugg, Bimse Fett
18/4 - Fotografiska Stockholm w/ OB JUAN/SPIRI:TUAL/PENTTI IGOR
11/4 - Fotografiska Stockholm w/ BONDANZA


Taking a small break from recording weekly Hjärngymnastik mixes at the moment. I'll be back shortly.

Gigs? PM.

Hjärngymnastik is my weekly digging project where I search for electronic music released before year 2001, sourced from vinyl, CDs and digital.

Artist, Songwriter and Producer based in Bristol, from South Wales. 
Projects: Annie Gardiner, Excellent Birds.

Todo producido y mezclado por mi de manera analógica y digital.
Proceso de investigación estereofónica

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